World Premiere Recording

 

ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY (1871-1942)

Drei Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier (1891)

I           Humoreske. Energis

II          Lied. Sehr warm

III        Tarantell. Wild bewegt

 

Sonate in a-Moll (1894)

I           Mit Leidenschaft

II          Andante

III        Allegretto

 

CARL GOLDMARK (1830-1915)

Sonate Op.39 (1890)

I           Moderato con mosso

II          Andante

III        Allegro non troppo

 

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (1897-1957)

from Die Tote Stadt : Tanzlied des Pierrot (1920)

Four pieces from Viel Larmen um Nichts Op.11 (1920)

I           Madchen im Brautgemach

II          Holzapfel und Schlehwein (Marsch der Wache)

III        Gartenscene

IV         Mummenschanz (Hornpipe)

from the film Deception – Romance-Impromptu (1946)

 

Raphael Wallfisch - Cello

John York – Piano

 

The Zemlinsky Sonate for cello and piano was written in 1894, when the composer was 23.  Apart from a few performances at that time it was presumed lost. However, Fitiz Spiegel had the manuscript, and gave it to Peter Wallfisch, who put the almost undecipherable score in his shirt cupboard where it lay unplayed for several decades. The Zemlinsky scholar

Antony Beaumont has now edited the work and cellists throughout the world have already been competing to perform this major discovery. Fittingly, in view of his family connection with the work, it is Raphael Wallfisch who presents the world premiere recording. The sonata is a work of almost 30 minutes and written in a highly romantic style reminiscent of the cello sonatas of Brahms.

 

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